Many Lives of Cy Endfield - Film Noir, the Blacklist, and ''zulu

Klappentext Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic! science! and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood! he was blacklisted in 1951 and fled to Britain. The fruit of years of archival research and personal interviews by Brian Neve! this title documents Endfield's many identities: among them second-generation immigrant! Jew! Communist! and exile. Zusammenfassung Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker (Try and Get Me!! Hell Drivers! Zulu) with interests in close-up magic! science! and invention. The director of several distinctive Hollywood movies! he was blacklisted and refused to "name names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

About the author

Brian Neve is an honorary reader in politics and film at the University of Bath. He is the author of Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition and Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider and coeditor of "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Neve
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2015
• EAN: 9780299303747
• ISBN: 978-0-299-30374-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Wisconsin Film Studies; Wisconsin Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies